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“Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.”
Adam Smith, Lecture in 1755
(quoted in Dugald Stewart, Account Of The Life And Writings Of Adam Smith LLD, Section IV, 25.)
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